Gibbs: We’re discussing health care in a way “that respects the dignity of each individual”
posted at 5:20 pm on August 7, 2009 by Allahpundit
Kudos for this one to the spin doctor in chief: The fact that he managed to get through it with a straight face after the week we’ve had, on the very day when The One told his opponents to shut up and get out of his way, is a sign of a true master PR flack at work. My only quibble with Tapper’s question and follow-up is that he wasn’t as comprehensive as he might have been. It was Pelosi who jump-started the Nazi meme with her idiotic comment about astroturfers carrying swastikas and it was lefty journo Bill Press who accused conservatives of following the Hitler playbook. And that only accounts for invective that explicitly invoked Nazism; if he broadened the question to more general accusations of racism against Republicans, he would have been there all day.
Exit question: By “taking the temperature down a bit,” does Gibbs mean having union goons stomp on people who are handing out flags?
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There is a very good reason why Jewish Americans vote 80% for the Dems. Tell Rush to keep it up
liberal343 on August 7, 2009 at 5:22 PM
“that respects the dignity of each individual”
…
unless they are old, disabled, handicapped, or cost too much money. (video below statement)
lorien1973 on August 7, 2009 at 5:23 PM
was that a tank that just drove past behind gibbs?
fireweednectar on August 7, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Yep. Pelosi saying protesters are nazi’s is all about Rush.
About as retarded as your last comment.
lorien1973 on August 7, 2009 at 5:23 PM
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/97481/thumbs/s-STROLLER-large.jpg
I feel back for this kid. Rethuglikkkans are pathetic
liberal343 on August 7, 2009 at 5:24 PM
Sigh… just had to be first.. And yes, he will keep it up b/c Rush is right about 99.3% of the time more or less.
davek70 on August 7, 2009 at 5:24 PM
yeah that coupled with his “thin ice” comment are menacing….
all you need to know about how in the bag the newsies are is the lack of a reporter asking, “so the SEIU attacking a black protester is “dignity for each individual?”
Keep on digging mules
sven10077 on August 7, 2009 at 5:25 PM
they are scared, by the way the Democrats will be using the Nazi reference on each other before this is over.
rob verdi on August 7, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Awwww. Your problem is public opinion is against you. Keep it up, please.
ddrintn on August 7, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Liar.
“I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess’…” – Obama
“carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on healthcare.” – Pelosi
Skywise on August 7, 2009 at 5:26 PM
My, my, is it just me or is the quality of the trolls really going down hill?
sandee on August 7, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Beta blocker abuser Gibbs
maverick muse on August 7, 2009 at 5:27 PM
It must really suck to be you.
lorien1973 on August 7, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Now I get it. Jews don’t vote GOP because they think Republicans are Nazis. If that’s true, it also explains how a majority of American Jews could have been credulous enough to believe that Obama’s election would be good for Israel.
Cicero43 on August 7, 2009 at 5:28 PM
This is ALL about Dem strategy to define conservatives negatively, any way possible. We need to keep pushing the evidence in the policies and practices of this administration and how THEY resemble that of the German Socialist Party or “NAZI PARTY”.
pjean on August 7, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Gibsy – the ultimate tool.
johnnybgood on August 7, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Twat.
LimeyGeek on August 7, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Statement from Sarah Palin just out:
Amen!
Norwegian on August 7, 2009 at 5:29 PM
If you had a brain it’d die of loneliness.
thomasaur on August 7, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Yeah – that’s it. It couldn’t be because most Jewish Americans are secular social liberals could it?
‘Oddly’ enough most Israeli Jews side with Republicans. I guess they prize their freedom to breathe more than to have an abortion.
And if we play the game of ‘guess what we found at a political gathering’ contest liberals still lose. I find it astonishing that liberals trot out pictures like the one you did and claim “look at what conservatives are really like!” while liberals have been going insane the last 10 years at political events doing much more egregious things. You are either naive or disingenuous.
gwelf on August 7, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Obama: “I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking”
Dignity for each individual, depends on the individual in Obamaland.
IrishEyes on August 7, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Shut. Up.
strosfan on August 7, 2009 at 5:30 PM
What a tool. Crickets on Pelosi.
—
When, AP, do we stop giving this administration, and the left in general, the benefit of the doubt?
Spirit of 1776 on August 7, 2009 at 5:30 PM
He’s “ineffectual henchman” right out of central casting.
ddrintn on August 7, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Why are Republicans pathetic for saying no to fascism?
Is fascism suddenly cool or something? I guess I didn’t get the talking points.
bamaconservative on August 7, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Unfortunately, so called ‘conservatives’ within the GOP have promoted just as much socialistic policy as the dems.
LimeyGeek on August 7, 2009 at 5:31 PM
The Democrats just can’t get their talking points right on Eric Cantor (R-VA).
It was only last year when Cantor’s name was mentioned as a possible Vice Presidential pick that the Democrats wanted everyone to know he’s a Jew. They didn’t mention the religion of any of the other potential candidates.
Now, however, they are accusing Eric Cantor, who is Jewish, of fostering Nazism in the United States.
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/08/07/democratic-national-committee-accuses-eric-cantor-of-stoking-nazism/
ICBM on August 7, 2009 at 5:31 PM
don’t you see the swastika
liberal343 on August 7, 2009 at 5:32 PM
~chokes on my coffee to read that~
Liam on August 7, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Gawd, Gibbs is trying so hard not to smirk or be snarky.
Must have been painful for him to control himself so.
misslizzi on August 7, 2009 at 5:32 PM
That is hilarious…
a lying, statist c#@t like Gibbs talking about individualism.
PimFortuynsGhost on August 7, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Only during anti-bush rallies for the past 8 years.
lorien1973 on August 7, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Fascism/socialism is not synonymous with nazism.
Leave the Godwin imbecility to the imbalanced pseudo-’liberals’.
LimeyGeek on August 7, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Looks like Baghdad Biden has some catching up to do.
commenter on August 7, 2009 at 5:33 PM
“1930s-40s events have no equivalent”
because this time round is becoming worse than before.
maverick muse on August 7, 2009 at 5:34 PM
They should tattoo the word “STANLEY” on his forehead.
Fallen Sparrow on August 7, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Swastika was presented on a sign with a ‘NO’ bar through it. ie say no to national socialism.
Spirit of 1776 on August 7, 2009 at 5:35 PM
How do I go about getting a firearms permit in NY State?
Liam on August 7, 2009 at 5:35 PM
ObamaCare is an excuse for the dems to kill your grandparents!
Their plan is to eliminate everyone with a real American birth certificate!
Pass it on!
e-pirate on August 7, 2009 at 5:35 PM
You really must think your one liners are so clever. Have you every put a few sentences together to make a coherent argument?
Scrappy on August 7, 2009 at 5:35 PM
During Bush’s terms, the swastika/kkk motif was de rigueur for the pseudo-liberal left.
The same can hardly be said for current anti-obama protestors.
LimeyGeek on August 7, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Would that be the swastika with the NO symbol around it?
You should either check your eyes or your brain. One of them doesn’t seem to be functioning.
Unless, what you are saying is that you prefer political parties that are pro-Naziism….though, if that is what you’re saying, you’ve got more issues than a newspaper.
JadeNYU on August 7, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Yup. I wonder how they’ll feel, when one of Obama’s czars philosophies goes into play, if this crap bill is passed.
You know….the one where those with special needs aren’t eligible for care. Special needs covers a wide spectrum of people, from disabled veterans, to paraplegics, and quadrapalegics, to the emotionally, and mentally disabled, to those with MS, and Parksinsons. Sounds like those with any of the above afflictions won’t get care, and that constitutes those with PRE existing conditions.
Or the philosophy that because a child isn’t socialized by the age of 2, that the government should wield the power to sieze, and abort that child.
Or putting sterilizing agents, into our drinking water.
Or forcing abortions on women who don’t want them, in order to keep population under control.
Good thing people don’t see Democrats as Nazi’s. Otherwise these things would be dangerously close to being nazi like.
capejasmine on August 7, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Is the point you’re trying to make that this is a pro-nazi picture and that is why you “feel back for this kid”?
Notice how there is a line through the swastika as in “NO facism” ie. government takeover, ie. Democraps in congress taking away our liberty…
This is the best you can come up with??
You’re such a loser
AZ_Mike on August 7, 2009 at 5:37 PM
“that respects the dignity of each individual”
Ah, the INDIVIDUAL that doesn’t exist in Obamaland or Hillary’s Village.
Obama fails to recognize the existence of unalienable rights. How easy to respect the dignity of a non-existent entity.
maverick muse on August 7, 2009 at 5:37 PM
It’s ok liberal *pats Liberals head*. A lot of the Germans didn’t see Hitler for what he was, before it was to late, too.
capejasmine on August 7, 2009 at 5:37 PM
If you’re in Metropolitan Bloombergia like I am it’s next to impossible. I don’t know about outside the city.
ernesto? blatantblue? Do you all know?
Fallen Sparrow on August 7, 2009 at 5:38 PM
You might just have a point there.
lorien1973 on August 7, 2009 at 5:38 PM
WOW. The level of intelligence here is pretty low
liberal343 on August 7, 2009 at 5:38 PM
You and Pelosi see them everywhere. You have one picture – so prominent a baby holding it – and this is proof that this is some sort of recurring phenomenon. You also ignore the fact that the swastika is crossed out. You also, like other liberals, can’t seem to get your story straight – are these protests part of some sort of massive shadowy effort by corporations or are they the mob anger of racist terrorists. It can’t be both.
gwelf on August 7, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Then why don’t you and the thug you work for act like it you lying POS
bluegrass on August 7, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Hmmmm…are you someone who can explain the House health care bill?
ddrintn on August 7, 2009 at 5:39 PM
What’s that I say about liberal projection all the time?
lorien1973 on August 7, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Herr Gibbels hath spoken
NoFanofLibs on August 7, 2009 at 5:40 PM
The first line of success in ones own failures, is to recognize it, and it seems you recognize that in yourself. ;)
capejasmine on August 7, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Wish I was a Photoshop guru…I’d love to see Gibbs done up as Baghdad Bob.
Dingbat63 on August 7, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Yes, I noticed the same thing. They used to try and comment with clever (in their small minds) one-liners, now it is reduced to regurgitated “KKK!!” screams.
Basically a sign of desperation if you ask me.
Norwegian on August 7, 2009 at 5:40 PM
You’re bringing our average down.
gwelf on August 7, 2009 at 5:40 PM
It has been ever since you got here and dragged down the curve.
Wear purple much?
Skywise on August 7, 2009 at 5:40 PM
AZ_Mike on August 7, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Leftist passé: Question Authority
maverick muse on August 7, 2009 at 5:40 PM
If you can’t understand the meaning of a symbol inside of a circle with a slash through it, then yes, I would agree, your intellegence is very low.
Scrappy on August 7, 2009 at 5:40 PM
I’m in Ruff Buff
Liam on August 7, 2009 at 5:40 PM
If you can, read Jonah Goldberg and you might learn about liberal fascism.
clorensen on August 7, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Actuarially I have 20 good years left. But under ObamasCare, I’ll be rationed out of access to treatment. This is the predicament of everyone 50 or older.
Our health care is NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS. Taking our property is one thing. But when they threaten our lives, we will fight back. It’s their call now. If they want rebellion, so be it.
petefrt on August 7, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Too many big words for you?
ddrintn on August 7, 2009 at 5:41 PM
You must have trouble with the no smoking signs too, huh?
Scrappy on August 7, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Well, speaking of swastikas, did everyone see doonesbury today? Evidently we republicnas love nazies and commies.
redshirt on August 7, 2009 at 5:42 PM
There Baghdad Bob Gibbs goes again.
Luka on August 7, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Do you actually have any arguments or reasoning to share? You’ve made accusations and shown a picture. You’ve yet to actually explain anything – throw us retards a bone here.
gwelf on August 7, 2009 at 5:43 PM
I love the sources in the “footnotes”. It’s like they think that HuffPo or Think Progress are actually legitimate. I guess that The Nation or World Worker’s Daily are a bit too obvious…
PimFortuynsGhost on August 7, 2009 at 5:43 PM
ROFL!!!
capejasmine on August 7, 2009 at 5:43 PM
I can’t remember the last time Doonesbury was actually funny.
Scrappy on August 7, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Check out the image in top left corner of Rush’s page here. That’s the Obama healthcare movement logo.
You can read the sharp analysis here.
Liberals are the new National Socialist Party. Their agenda, short of genocide (so far), is EXACTLY the same. You can turn a blind eye to it, but I hope you turn back before you find them coming for you.
PastorJon on August 7, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Skywise on August 7, 2009 at 5:40 PM
The Color Purple covers Lefties’ swastika tattoos.
maverick muse on August 7, 2009 at 5:44 PM
What has just baffled me is that supposedly the Obama White House is just full of politically savvy advisors, Clintonistas, etc…
What idiot thought saying all these things was a good idea? Who really thought this wouldn’t backfire?
I knew they were all arrogant, power-drunk dweebs, but I didn’t realize it was at an intense enough level that it makes them all blindingly stupid. Hearing all of the ridiculous quotes that have come out of the White House the past couple days at first made me downright livid, but now I’m just reveling in the fact they’re completely destroying themselves.
KellyBomelly on August 7, 2009 at 5:45 PM
ROFL…MoveOn is of course blissfully unaware of the irony…
ddrintn on August 7, 2009 at 5:45 PM
Why do I have the image of the end of Soylent Green?
upinak on August 7, 2009 at 5:45 PM
the very fact that the republikkkans will even think about using that symbol itself is a little bit troubling
liberal343 on August 7, 2009 at 5:45 PM
The transcript is up at the whitehouse site.
We’ve been wrong in imagining the White House Press Corps works for Obama…apparently Mistuh Gibbs got told off by his supervisor. C’mon, Helen, they’re beating up people as much as they could without drawing a special prosecutor…
Chris_Balsz on August 7, 2009 at 5:46 PM
It missed the no left turn sign.
thomasaur on August 7, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Says the guy who types republikkkans all the time.
lorien1973 on August 7, 2009 at 5:46 PM
ok, this will start a fuss.
“dignity” for individuals he says?
what about “dignity” & life for the unborn? the federal funding of abortions is still in the bill.
kelley in virginia on August 7, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Hmmm. Don’t know about the laws up there; what I understand is that you don’t need a permit for a long gun in NY State (outside of the city). Handguns I’m not certain about.
I know that here in Bloombergia, that you need permits for both long guns and handguns (and they have to be registered with NYPD, including fingerprints). Don’t bother trying to get a handgun permit in NYC – it just won’t happen. Long gun permits require you to apply in person at NYPD in Kew Gardens; the app fee is about $140 and the fingerprint fee is another $100 or so. The permit is issued at the discretion of the PD and it can take six months or so. Essentially they make it so burdensome to apply that it’s not worth doing.
Fallen Sparrow on August 7, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Every other idiot t-shirt had Bush with a Hitler mustache, but down the memory hole we go!
rob verdi on August 7, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Also, says the guy whose party thought “bushitler” was comedy for 8 years.
lorien1973 on August 7, 2009 at 5:48 PM
The former Guv has weighed in:http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=113851103434&1&index=0
jimmy2shoes on August 7, 2009 at 5:48 PM
This whole admin lives in a memory whole, starting with Obama who seems to have forgotten that he was in the Senate since 2004.
rob verdi on August 7, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Anyone hear the caller to Hannity today, who called the snitch line? He gave no party affiliation, but wanted to test things, as far as what was asked.
While his anonyminity would respected, he was asked to give a name, address, activity, etc. So taking only emails, my aunt fanny.
Liberal, you seem like the little girl in Schindlers list. When they carted off Jews from their homes, the little girl hollared out, over, and over again….Goodbye Jews. Goodbye Jews!
In this case, I have no doubts you’d be more than happy to stand on the streets hollaring…goodbye Republicans, Conservatives, or any other such title you’d care to hurl.
If you support this kind of regime, I will pray for you!
capejasmine on August 7, 2009 at 5:48 PM
*Cough, cough* except for Soros *cough, cough*
ddrintn on August 7, 2009 at 5:48 PM
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=113851103434&1&index=0
Fixed it.
jimmy2shoes on August 7, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Obama plans on cutting funds from Medicare to fund research into the Gay Bomb, which he will then unleash on the heartland, turning patriotic God-loving real Americans into homos.
e-pirate on August 7, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Why the “kkk” in republicans? I mean, the only KKK member active in national politics is a democrat?
I think someone has a projection issue…
PimFortuynsGhost on August 7, 2009 at 5:48 PM
the dems don’t seem weak in response (other than ratcheting up the violence, if that is considered weak).
the Republican leadership should step up to the plate. they are the ones who seem weak to me.
kelley in virginia on August 7, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Oh, and I KNOW you would be HOWLING if Bush had suggested that people send in information on people spreading “disinformation” about Social Security privatization. Or if he’d created an email address to rat on your neighbors if they said our troops in Iraq were wasting their time.
But Obama does it, and you think the Republicans are the Nazis?
PastorJon on August 7, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Uh, the left has been using it for the past 9 years. Regularly. Maybe you missed lorien’s link but there are plenty of examples of liberal protestors using Nazi symbolism, including the swastika, in protesting Bush.
I’m beginning to think you lack the requisite intelligence that merits a response. I have to believe you are an idiot or simply write things to get a reaction.
gwelf on August 7, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Yes, the one tattooed on your liberal head.
farright on August 7, 2009 at 5:49 PM
The It has spoken.
blatantblue on August 7, 2009 at 5:49 PM
“Well, the Nazis were against big business.”
The Socialist government was/is big business. No competition allowed, which is likely what was referenced.
maverick muse on August 7, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Me thinks you’re trying to bait people. LOL Good luck!
Now go back to your tinker toys.
capejasmine on August 7, 2009 at 5:50 PM
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